The Sebastian

A few months ago, I did a small experiment: I wanted to see how easy it would be to design and program a few algorithms to generate pretty web 2.0 style tag clouds to summarize web sites content, and so I built a mock up. In a nutshell, the artifact goes and reads a web site's content, unscrambles the HTML, analyzes the frequency of the different words (SEO related), reports a histogram and finally generates a semi-random tag cloud image (with some configurable parameters). This is part of a bigger idea, but I just wanted to post a few cloud tags for now and see what you think:





I might post more about the big idea behind this later on... meanwhile I would love to read your comments! Was the tag helpful to learn what the site is talking about? Did it tempt you to click on it? Do they look cool? Do you want yours here? Post a comment with your URL and I'll give it a try!

P.S.: in case you were wondering, the artifact uses mostly PHP and Processing to do its magic.

P.S. #2: Here goes the cloud for Travis from:



Thanks for the positive comment and nice blog BTW!